The Trent-Severn Waterway may be open for business, but area boaters aren't sure how much it's going to be getting.

The Trent-Severn Waterway may be open for business, but area boaters aren't sure how much it's going to be getting.
http://bit.ly/1884UOr Barrie Examiner 


Effective this season, the waterway's 44 locks are opened two-and-a-half hours less each day.

Parks Canada, tasked with cutting $3 million from the waterway's budget, had originally proposed ending the season — which runs from Victoria Day to Thanksgiving long weekends — two weeks earlier and increasing both moorage and lockage fees, much to the outrage of recreational boaters, commercial operators and municipalities.

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Not a good thing. Between the low water levels for Lake Huron & Georgian Bay, and what the government is  doing to Trent-Severn, the fun is going out of boating. 

MPs fighting for waterway

MPs fighting for waterway

http://bit.ly/Q24TGn Midland Free Press

MPs Bruce Stanton, Rick Norlock, Dean Del Mastro and Barry Devolin delivered a recommendation Friday to federal environment minister Peter Kent, suggesting the government not go through with the proposed reductions.

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I hope they can get the government to change it's mind

Trent-Severn Waterway employees face layoffs

Trent-Severn Waterway employees face layoffs

http://bit.ly/P7LGR7 Barrie Examiner


Not a good thing. The waterway brings a lot of benefits to communities on it and around it. 


If you have been thinking of a trip on the Trent-Severn you might want to take it this year as it's schedule for next few years is up in the air.